Chapter 18

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled
together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And
the land was subdued before them.
2And there remained among the children
of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
3And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye
slack to go to possess the land, which the Lord God of your fathers hath
given you?
4Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and
I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe
it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to
me.
5And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in
their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts
on the north.
6Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven
parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots
for you here before the Lord our God.
7But the Levites have no part among
you; for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance: and Gad, and
Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance
beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.

8And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to
describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and
come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the Lord in
Shiloh.
9And the men went and passed through the land, and described it
by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the
host at Shiloh.

10And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord: and there
Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their
divisions.

11And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according
to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children
of Judah and the children of Joseph.
12And their border on the north side
was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north
side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof
were at the wilderness of Bethaven.
13And the border went over from
thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the
border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the
south side of the nether Bethhoron.
14And the border was drawn
thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill
that lieth before Beth- horon southward; and the goings out thereof
were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjath- jearim, a city of the
children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
15And the south
quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the border went out
on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
16And the
border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the
valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of
the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side
of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,
17And was drawn from
the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth,
which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the
stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
18And passed along toward the side over
against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
19And the border
passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the
border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this
was the south coast.
20And Jordan was the border of it on the
east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by
the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
21Now the
cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families
were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
22And
Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
23And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
24And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their
villages:
25Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
26And Mizpeh, and
Chephirah, and Mozah,
27And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
28And
Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and
Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance
of the children of Benjamin according to their families.